Boston Area Entertainment, Organizations, and other Resources: Boston.com — check out their movie and restaurant reviews and searches Boston Vegetarian Society (BVS) — Find a complete listing of vegetarian restaurants in Massachusetts including vegan macrobiotic and organic raw foods. Every year BVS also host a huge food festival at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury — a great chance to meet new vendors, sample new foods, and organic products. BVS organizes monthly seminars with guest speakers on nutrition, compassionate ethics... Craigslist Boston — free apartment listings, discussion forums, personals... Cambridge Forum — one of public radios' longest running public affairs programs. They have weekly free presentations on Harvard Square's Church Street. They explore topics related to civic democracy, science and technology, history and the global environment, and include as well discussions about computers, education, art, and more. Boston MBTA — Public subway transportation and commuter rail schedules Free Shakespeare at Boston Common — annual Shakespearean productions are performed at the Boston Common during the summer... Boston Center for Adult Education — they offer many affordable, fun and educational courses to the community Cambridge Center for Adult Education — also a great resource for those who are seeking continuing education and fun activities Boston Open Studios — check out local artists' gallery exhibitions all over the Boston area especially Forte Point Channel's artwork if you like to see particularly cutting-edge creative work. City of Boston Calendar — see listing of Boston area local events Boston Event Guide: Annual Events Overview Greater Boston Consortium — view a listing of choral groups in the Boston area if you want to join a local chorus or a cappella. Museum of Fine Arts Film Program — Check out film festivals, and foreign and indie films at the MFA. Boston Marathon — World's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events. Marathon Monday falls on Monday, April 18, 2005 this year... Boston marathon always runs by Wellesley College at the halfway point. Boston First Night — First Night New Year's Eve activities take place from 1pm to midnight on December 31st at over 30 indoor and outdoor venues throughout downtown Boston. Fun opportunity to check out the huge ice sculptures. Resources for Entrepreneurs, Small Businesses and Companies: Small Business School — PBS tv series on Sundays featuring case studies of successful small businesses. Learn some tips on improving your own small business. ZipGlobal Inc. — Website Designer and Creative Director An inexpensive quality voice-over-IP broadband phone service. Save with rates as low as 1 - 2 ¢ per minute to Asia and the USA for $0/month or $39.95 a month for unlimited, FREE calls to China, Hong Kong, USA and Canada. It's as easy as plugging your own phone to the ZipGlobal gateway, a telephone adapter, to connect and dial out. No more hassles carrying calling cards or figuring out messy headsets and microphone hook-ups. No computers needed either. Hoover's Business Reports on Companies Business Know-How — You can sign up for their newsletter for advice on how to grow your small businesses, home business, or career. United States — research statistics and facts i.e. healthiest states, crime index, government, etc. Sperling's Best Places — Demographics research on best places to live, work and retire; learn more on cost of living, neighborhood profiles, city comparisons, climate profiles and more... NASRO (National Association for Socially Resonsible Organizations) — check out Massachusetts Health Insurance Plans for the self-employed or small business owners NASE (National Association for the Self-Employed) — leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses (up to ten employees); they also offer affordable health insurance plans based on your needs. CircleLending — a specialty loan administration company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; they design tools and resources used to manage interpersonal loans between relatives, friends, and other private parties. Great resource for startups who want to formalize their lending relationships with those within their personal network. IRS: Small Business & Self-Employed One-Stop Resource — access info on e-files, bartering, EINS, small business forms, and taxes Mom Inventors, Inc. — If you're a mom, you might find this site particularly exciting. This firm offers web-based collaboration resources and participation for enterprising moms who want to invent products that benefit families. MSN Ideas Happen — a resource for 18-29 year olds who can submit new entrepreneurial ideas to the site to win $25,000 that will give their ideas a head start into making their dreams come true. E-community Sites WAAM (Wellesley Alumnae & Affiliates in Multimedia) — A Boston-based organization that I founded for Wellesley and MIT alumni interested in project collaboration and independent work in new media, multimedia, creativity, arts, hi-tech and entrepreneurship. Join our Yahoo email list to attend our events. I often host dinner discussions with guest speakers on diverse topics including freelancing, online communities, evolutionary artificial intelligence, and multimedia. Friendster — a popular e-community for friends TheSquare — an e-community of folks from top colleges/universities Wellesley College Resources for Wellesley alumnae: Wellesley College — my alma mater Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston (WCAB) — Wellesley College's Boston-based alumnae club. My organization WAAM is affiliated with WCAB. Wellesley College Annual Ruhlman Conference This website above includes the abstracts from the Conference '98 of which two of my projects "Electronic Age Metamorphosis" and "Si-Ming: Field of the Heart" (A Dialogue) were featured. Wellesley College Tanner Conference — an annual conference that serves as a venue for students and alumni to share their international experiences outside the college to enrich community learning and academic studies. MIT Resources: MIT Sloan Business School Seminar 15.963:   Electronic Commerce & Marketing (I took this course taught by Professor John Little. This website has some good information on e-commerce topics) MIT Course 21W785:  Communicating in Cyberspace MIT OpenCourseWare — a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world who want to gain access to MIT education. 1998 Junior Summit (In the Spring of 1998, I recruited Peruvian children to the Junior Summit hosted by the MIT Media Lab. I was a student of Nicholas Negroponte's Intro to Media Arts and Science class) Resource for Designers: Pantone™ to Hex Color Chart — use this color chart when designing web based graphics that require Pantone™ color matching. Web Palette — a great web color palette that gives you the RGB numerical values as well as the HTML code Web Palette — an interactive website with web color palette CNET Bandwidth Meter — check your internet connection speed against top DSL, cable modem, and other broadband services TUCOWS — They have a big collection of free software for PCs CNET Download.com — download freeware and try out new products Sites to download free fonts: (Thanks to my friend Fish's pointers and comments below) Chankstore Free Font Archive (lots of free stuff here — some of Fish's favorite fonts) Swankarmy (amazing quantity of techno style stuff) Fontlinks.com — a directory created by Grilled Cheese listing other font sites Grilled Cheese (funny site, lotsa bizzare CGI applications that control it all, but some good fonts in there too) New Media Organizations — Find out what's happening in New Media: Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) — their Boston Chapter Apple Computers, Inc. — check out their seminars The Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) — their Boston Chapter Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) Boston CyberArts Festival Do While Studio (This is a place where I interned as a sophomore-- they are a non-profit great think tank for artists interested in integrating technology and sciences) Miscellaneous Interesting Sites Free Calorie Counter & Weight Loss Calculator Epicurious — a great recipe collection site with lots of yummy recipes Blogger — Free tool to create your own blog Tickle.com — This site offers all types of fun tests to take to assess the following: MBTI personality type, inkblot test, IQ, relationship preferences... Philosophy Pages — provides a dictionary of philosophical terms, history of western philosophy... Dictionary of Quotations — Look up quotes by subject or author Directory of Links to Inspirational Quotes KwMap.com — browse Keyword Map of the Internet ™ L3xicon.com — a web thesaurus and lexicon listing my jsiming.com site under the keywords: art portfolio, baby portrait and freelance website design I Do Foundation — If you're getting married, great site that helps you set up a charitable donations in your honor and wedding gift registries with charitable organizations... Chinese music links: Deng LiJun Soundtrack: "Dream of the Red Chamber" Personal Links to My Friends' websites: My boyfriend Alex Chou's website — Alex holds a B.S. from Harvard and is working toward his Master's in Information Technology. He's currently a Software Engineer at a Covergence, a firm providing security and control for real-time communication over IP networks. My friend Benjamin J. Walter's website — My project partner Ben Walter collaborates with me currently on freelance projects as my technical lead. He graduated at the top of his class with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a Minor in Chinese at MIT. He has worked for many well-known companies internationally in London and China including BlueSocket, ARM and Adero often as a lead engineer and managing partner for over ten years. Please contact me if you would like more info on our freelance design and development services. My friend "Fish" Bohn's website (Fish demos my fish Java applet from last year on his page)